(Suspected) Missing `apt update`

[kamalca]

Using Posix.install_packages("dracut-core") fails on Ubuntu 18.04. I believe this is because apt update needs to be run before trying to install.

Here is the error: `2021-09-28 20:26:46.328[19280][INFO] lisa.RootRunner HvModule.initrd_modules_check: FAILED failed. AssertionError: [Failed to install ['dracut-core'], please check the package name and repo are correct or not. E: Package 'dracut-core' has no installation candidate

get unexpected exit code on cmd ['sudo', 'DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive', 'apt-get', '-y', 'install', 'dracut-core']] Expected <100> to be equal to <0>, but was not.`

Booting a VM confirms that trying to install dracut-core before running apt update will cause an error. Therefore I assume that is the problem here.

[kamalca]

I see where apt update should be running. I confirmed _initialize_package_installation is called and runs apt-get update. So now I'm not sure what is causing the issue.

[LiliDeng]

@kamalca did you meet this 100%?

[squirrelsc]

Do you have log file? Check if there is any output form apt-get update.

[kamalca]

lisa-20210929-021753-556.log

It looks like everything is running properly, but the behavior is as if apt-get update was never run.

~I am getting this error every time~ Turns out this error is not occurring consistently.

[LiliDeng]

From the log, it said that 'dracut-core' doesn't exist...

[mcgov]

I think I'm hitting this too with dpdk-dev and dpdk from the package manager

[squirrelsc]

@mcgov can you share a full log?

[mcgov]

Yep will post, I'm seeing a couple of weird errors testing so trying to sort them out.

[LiliDeng]

I think this issue was fix in PR #2327 , feel free to reopen it when you still see such issue.